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title: He could find nothing to eat save dry bones, and old thongs or soles… — The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo I… · tree and pragmatics
description: He could find nothing to eat save dry bones, and old thongs or soles of moccasins. Who acts: COYOTE. A sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories, The First of the Rattlesnakes, sentence 46

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He could find nothing to eat save dry bones, and old thongs or soles of moccasins.

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**Who acts:** COYOTE · **What happens:** find, eat, save · **To what, where:** nothing, dry bones

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This is a sentence of «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, The First of the Rattlesnakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (COYOTE), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77804:8:47
# text = He could find nothing to eat save dry bones, and old thongs or soles of moccasins.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
8	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	bones	bone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	thongs	thong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
14	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	soles	sole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	moccasins	moccasin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | could | COYOTE | nothing |  |  |  | old thongs or soles of moccasins *obl* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic |
| 2 | **eat** | to-infinitive | COYOTE *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **save** | infinitive | COYOTE *not said here* | dry bones |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The man who married the moon, and other Pueblo Indian folk-stories» by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Project Gutenberg book 77804 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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